Conventional wisdom says that lawyers who cut back on their hours at work, often to make time for their families, also reduce their opportunities to succeed as partners, says Cynthia…
At the Silicon Valley law firm, “workflow coordinators” review lawyers’ hours in an effort to “avert overload,” according to the Sep 23, 2009 3:00 PM CDT
A former in-house lawyer sued for his blog comments about an intellectual property litigator has settled after a favorable ruling during his defamation trial in Texas.
Following a five-month trial, a New York jury is finally deliberating the criminal case against a son of socialite Brooke Astor and one of her attorneys. They are accused by…
Criminal defense lawyers in Birmingham stepped up to the, er, commode after learning that officials at the local Jefferson County Jail were severely rationing toilet paper.
For almost a decade, attorneys at Armstrong, Mitchell, Damiani and Zaccagnini in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County helped government and commercial clients persuade the county’s Board of Revision…
In an unusual naming-of-names prior to any official determination of misconduct, the State Bar of California has publicly identified in a Sept. 18 press release 16 lawyers…
Within 15 minutes of when Melissa Mahler was asked by a client company’s CEO to draft a letter of intent concerning a potential merger in 2004, the then-Nixon Peabody technology…
A 58-year-old South Carolina criminal defense attorney has been charged with solicitation of a felony for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill another attorney with whom he…
The dissolved law firm Thelen has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, saying its lender Citigroup is no longer willing to advance funds to wind down its operations or to fund…
Sullivan & Cromwell reportedly told several of the nation’s top law schools that it would require students to respond to job offers within two weeks, but quickly abandoned the plan.